Hello, I cleared the list of bug fixes, feature additions and API changes that I had in mind for 0.10, so I thought it was about time tagging a 0.10.0-rc1. In the past weeks I received quite some intense testing from some early adopter users, so I am very happy for the current solidity of PoDoFo. There were also very useful discussions about critical API changes that ended in PoDoFo, and those lead to make the API design even more robust, and code organization as well. After many delays I finally decided to move the I/O subsystem to a non PDF specific location (the "auxiliary"[1] folder, previously known as "common"). I also made a change that may be controversial, so I speak about it now: I renamed PdfRect to Rect and moved to "auxiliary". The rationale is the following: Matrix and Vector2 classes were added, Rect is coupled with Matrix (we can transform the rectangle with the matrix), and I found that either we prefix all the geometrical types with "Pdf", or we go without prefix for all of them. I found PdfMatrix and especially PdfVector2 non appealing (too long to type), so I decided to have all of them without Pdf prefix, because they are quite generic geometrical concepts that don't have a strong/unique coupling with the Pdf specification, except the fact that Matrix and Rect can be serialized through PdfArray (the conventions for the roto-translation matrix used in PDF are common also outside of PDF). Still the types are within the PoDoFo namespace, so we have now: - PoDoFo::Vector2 - PoDoFo::Matrix - PoDoFo::Rect
which are all enough short to type. I am assuming the risk of clashes with other libraries low or avoidable qualifying the namespace/creating typedefs. If you don't like the naming of the classes, please suggest some alternatives, considering that all the three types are directly or indirectly coupled and should be grouped together. If no major discussion or bug fixing is required, I think we can have a 0.10.0 in a week/ten days: after that I will also be able to talk more about the experience of these two months after re-integration of pdfmm and the plans for the future. For Linux distribution packagers: I will recommend against 0.10 for packaging in Linux distros, for two reasons: tools are untested, and more API improvements are planned for 1.0. I will also talk more about this later. Cheers, Francesco [1] https://github.com/podofo/podofo/tree/master/src/podofo/auxiliary _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
